(...)I was stucked in Lisbon for two days because my host didn't send me his address...and acutally I don't know if he's still alive because to now he wasn't online for two weeks or something. Anyway, I arrived in Lisbon and the first thing I had to do was finding a place to enter the internet. Soon I found a big store with several shops, restaurants and in one of the shops you can just enter and use the mac books for free^^ So full of hope I entered www.couchsurfing.org ...to see that I have no message. I didn't contact anybody else which surely was a mistake so now I had to find a couch last minute. Finding a couch last minute is not so easy especially not when there are holidays in a bigger city. I sent lot's of request and also some open requests (message every couchsurfer can read in one city) to nearby citys.
Then I started sightseeing a bit...the bad thing was that I had to walk around with my backpack all day because in the hotels of Lisbon they don't do you the favour to keep your backpack for a few hours....you need to be a guest blabla.
In the evening I came back to the apple store to have a look if I got an answer. Unfortunatly only a few declines - so no couch for today. What should I do? Sleeping outside in a big city is not really safe and I don't want to pay for a hostel.
In big citys for me there are two opportunities: You enter a hotel pretend to be a guest, go to the last floor and sleep there or you drive to the end of the metro line which goes out of the city and look for a place to camp. This time I decided to camp so I got into the metro and about 40 minutes later I got out and beside the exit of the metro there was a field with high grass and some bushes. Perfect place to camp^^ ....and I was lucky it was not raining so much that night.
The next day I went to the apple shop again and saw that I still had no message xD ....a few we are full messages but for now no couch. The rest of the day was exactly like the day before so in the evening I went to my camping site again. The night was not exactly like the one before because it was heavily raining and once I woke up and had to hold the tent poles because it was also very windy. After 10 minutes the weather quiet down again and I could fall asleep soon.
As my tent is not that waterproofed my stuff was wet the next morning. Fortunatly it was pretty sunny so it all dried fastly.^^
I went to the store again and finally I was lucky !!! A brasilian girl invited me to a nearby city called Cascais! :) (...)
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